1st Edition
Access to Higher Education Theoretical perspectives and contemporary challenges
Section 1: Access to higher education
Chapter 1 – Global trends of access to and equity in postsecondary education
Chiao-Ling Chien, Patrick Montjouridès and Hendrik van der Pol
Chapter 2 – The stratification of opportunity in high participation systems (HPS) of higher education
Simon Marginson
Section 2: Theoretical perspectives
Chapter 3 – Capitals and habitus: a Bourdieusian framework for understanding transitions into higher education and student experiences
Ciaran Burke
Chapter 4 – Explaining inequality? Rational action theories of educational decision making
Ron Thompson
Chapter 5 – Student choices under uncertainty: bounded rationality and behavioural economics
Neil Harrison
Chapter 6 – Higher education: too risky a decision?
Malcolm Brynin
Chapter 7 - Widening access with success: using the capabilities approach to confront injustices
Merridy Wilson-Strydom
Chapter 8 – Reflexivity and agency: critical realist and Archerian analyses of access and participation
Peter Kahn
Section 3: Contemporary challenges
Chapter 9 – Framing and making of access policies: the case of Palestinian Arabs in higher education in Israel
Ayala Hendin, Dalia Ben-Rabi and Faisal Azaiza
Chapter 10 – Widening access in a vast country: opportunities and challenges in Australia
Ann Jardine
Chapter 11 – Accessing postgraduate study in the United States for African Americans: relating the roles of family, fictive kin, faculty, and student affairs practitioners
Carmen M. McCallum, Julie R. Posselt and Estefanía López
Chapter 12 – Participation and access in higher education in Russia: continuity and change of a positional advantage
Anna Smolentseva
Chapter 13 – Can Holistic and Contextualised Admission (HaCA) widen access at highly selective universities? Experiences from England and the United States
Anna Mountford-Zimdars
Chapter 14 – Diversifying admissions through top-down entrance examination reform in Japanese elite universities: what is happening on the ground?
Beverley Anne Yamamoto
Chapter 15 – The mobility imperative: English students and 'fair' access to international higher education
Rachel Brooks and Johanna Waters
Conclusion
Biography
Anna Mountford-Zimdars is a senior lecturer in Higher Education and Head of Research at King's Learning Institute, King’s College London, UK.
Neil Harrison is a senior lecturer in the Department of Education at the University of the West of England, UK.
